Sexuality and Reproduction

Question 1

Kulick 1997

Answer 1

Gender of Travestis, Brazil

• identify as men
• men and not-men (Latin America)
• gender as acts of sexuality

Question 2

Anthropology matters : Hegemonic Gender

Answer 2

if we have a gender hierarchy, anthropological ways of looking cross-culturally at ideas of sex and gender vary vastly is helpful for denaturalising ideas about gender itself but also the outcomes of inequality.

Question 3

Blakwood 1998

Answer 3

Tombois, West Sumatra Indonesia

• They are men
• Gender not defined by acts of sexuality
• “as any man does, they are negotiating their cultural ideology of masculinity”

Question 4

Gutmann 2005

Answer 4

Vasectomies, Oaxaca, Mexico

- totemic illusion

Question 5

1978

Answer 5

IVF - first Test tube baby

Question 6

Deomampo 2015

Answer 6

Making citizens: Nationality + citizenship in Transnational Surrogacy

• Mumbai surrogacy clinics
• Legal hassle
• Stateless babies

Question 7

Sufrin 2018

Answer 7

Making Mothers in Jail, US

- incarceration must be understood through the lens of reproductive justice

Question 8

Stratified Reproduction

Answer 8

inequalities based on hierarchies of … that are structured by social, economic and political forces

Question 9

US Afro-American 2.5x more likely to die during pregnancy

Answer 9

BLKHLTH 2017

Question 10

Carsten 2004

Answer 10

“After Kinship”

• posthumous conception
• Artificial Insemination Israel
• Relatedness to kinship: new flexible approach to study of kinship

Question 11

Andaya, Mishtal 2017

Answer 11

Reproductive Politics, US

• 2011-15 most restrictions since Roe V Wade
• fetal personhood
• vantage of the state
• gender

Question 12

Anthropology matters : Reproductive justice

Answer 12

study of abortion politics (in US) is a rich opportunity for applied and policy-orientated ethnographic research.